Lesley Harrison
Lesley Harrison, born in Ayrshire, Scotland, has published six collections of poetry, including the poetry pamphlet Blue Pearl, published by New Directions. She has lived and worked in Istanbul, West Africa, Mongolia, and Orkney, on Scotland’s northern coastline. Harrison has held writing residencies in Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, and the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies. She lives in the small fishing village of Auchmithie on the Angus coast of Scotland.
Lesley Harrison
Lesley Harrison, born in Ayrshire, Scotland, has published six collections of poetry, including the poetry pamphlet Blue Pearl, published by New Directions. She has lived and worked in Istanbul, West Africa, Mongolia, and Orkney, on Scotland’s northern coastline. Harrison has held writing residencies in Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, and the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies. She lives in the small fishing village of Auchmithie on the Angus coast of Scotland.
Books by Lesley Harrison
Blue Pearl
Lesley Harrison
Paperback, 2017
orca / in a sea blue room, / breathing pearls that rise to the surface —from Blue Pearl.Kitchen Music
Lesley Harrison, Kirsty Gunn
Paperback, 2023
A cosmology of place written in the songs of whales and birds, folk tales, city streets, and the green glass sea